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Tag Archives: James Cruze
If I Had a Million (1932) James Cruze, H. Bruce, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields
Tycoon John Glidden, dying though still vigorous, is so dissatisfied with his relatives Read More »
David Harum (1934) James Cruze, Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Read More »
The Wrong Road (1937) James Cruze, Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, Lionel Atwill
Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make Read More »
Prison Nurse (1938) James Cruze, Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates Read More »
The Covered Wagon (1923) James Cruze, J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. Read More »
Sutter’s Gold (1936) James Cruze, Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant’s property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush. Read More »
The Pony Express (1925) James Cruze, Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence
The Pony Express is a rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express Read More »
Gangs of New York (1938) James Cruze, Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being Read More »
The Great Gabbo (1929) James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. Read More »
I Cover the Waterfront (1933) James Cruze, Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence
Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can’t obtain enough evidence to satisfy his editor. Read More »
Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) James Cruze, Lee Tracy, Constance Cummings, Walter Connolly, Drama
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. Read More »